This IG Nobel Prize Thursday’s ceremony celebrated the unusual and imaginative works in the fields of science, medicine and technology. In particular, this award is for research teams who tackle extreme anthropological questions and professionally elicit you to laugh.
The notable award-winning discoveries include, among others, the fact that some mammals can breath through the rectal cavity, the different probabilities of a coin being heads or tails after a toss, the capacity of live plants to mimic plastic plants, and more disturbing while effective restrictions about the efficacy of medicines which causes severe side effects compared to the conventional ones. There are always nutty people and all the record maintained by the mentally challenged people and record in the 27 longevity associations are hard to believe.
The two-hour program incorporated a host of strange, delightful, telling constituent elements in the terms of accordion music, safe date humourous briefings and two instances of ‘the paper plane floods’ picture at the appointed area on stage by the audience. The winners of anal breathing in mammals include Okabe Ryo and Takanori Takebe for their research which this may offer an alternative way of oxygen supply to the critically ill patients where respirators and artificial lungs are in short supply.
BF Skinner is another noteworthy winner who was awarded even after his death for his involvement in the development of pigeon-guided missiles, as well as the interdisciplinary group based in Italy that proved that flipping a coin leads to even chances of landing on both sides, and finally the intensive research undertaken by a Franco-Chilean team investigating the spiral hair arrangements on the heads of people in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Campaign awards are a great opportunity to increase participation and go beyond the traditional securing of curtains as there are other exciting elements such as the use of explosive bags near milk-drenching cats standing on a horses back for the examination of its milk giving attributes and employing chromatography to separate intoxicated worms from sober ones.
The recipient was presented with a ten trillion dollar zimbabwean currency bill which had since become out of circulation and a ‘clear box’ supposed to represent the theme of the award ceremony ‘Murphys Law though some materials were omitted and the container was closer to impregnable than transparent.
